Ep. 145 – Selflessness: Uncommon Sense
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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There's No Big Dipper Up There
On a clear night, go outside and look up at the sky. I'm just probably all familiar with the constellation, the big dipper. But there's no big dipper up there. It's just points of light, you know, in a certain relation. And what's so interesting is that by the habituation of that concept, one consequence of it is that when we look upAt the sky, even though the concept has some uses, but another consequence is that the concept separates those stars from all the other stars in the sky. So instead of looking up and really opening to the unity of the night sky, the familiarity of that concept picks those particular stars out or they
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